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from his dancing so the curtain closes in on mand and Mr. Blues fears it will break her have all his strength. He inflicts most of m Big Boy Blues him and the first act for good and nearly heart if she learns the truth." injuries with a left hook." everyone in the audience moves out into the "Colonel," Captain Caswell says, "I dis­ "Well, Willie," I say, "it shows you hov Continued fiom pag« 13 lobby for the intermission to smoke and gas tinctly hear Big Boy yell when he gets up Colonel Coogan is deceived by Big Boy am and all they are gassing about is Little Boy's from his seat and our experience with him in Captain Caswell is right all the time. I sup Little Boy Blues stands there on the stage dancing. Then I see Captain Caswell talking the past is that he always prefaces his acts pose Big Boy's fury over Little Boy being ii panting as if he just finishes a fast hundred to Rosie Flynn in a corner of the lobby and of violence by yelling." Gee Eyes flares up anew when he has timi yards and taking bows with one hand on his I get close enough to hear the captain say: "Yes," Colonel Coogan says, "he yells all to think about it and no doubt he assault stomach and also perspiring no little and the "Well, Rosie," he says, "you certainly do right, but so do I and what we are both you as a representative of the show." audience applauds with even greater vigor the community a service by requesting police yelling is bravo." . "Oh, no," Willie says. "Big Boy is still al than before and at this moment I observe protection here tonight. If it is not for your At this point I hear a slight gasp behind pleasured up over Little Boy's performance Big Boy Blues jump up from his seat down warning and my skill with a jack we will me and on looking around I observe that and what is more he and Little Boy an( front. have serious trouble although to tell you the Rosie Flynn slumps to the floor in a dead Rosie Flynn are enjoying a happy and ver I notice his mouth is wide open so I judge truth we have enough already with the guy faint consequently there is more excitement loving family reunion but Big Boy gets tc he is yelling something and thinks I to myself we commandeer the seat from behind Big during which I take my departure without brooding about the ticket speculator whi well, here it comes, although there is too Boy. I only hope and trust that he does not even waiting for the second act as my legs are calls him up: and tells him of Little Boy'; much noise for me to hear what he is yelling have as much influence as he claims and very tired from the standing room only. presence in the show and hustles him inti about, and besides at almost the same instant anyway he can have the seat now." buying a ticket for a hundred dollars whicl he jumps up a guy in the seat directly behind Then Colonel Coogan comes into the AM again sitting in Mindy's restaurant is about a ninety-five dollar premium." him jumps up too and practically similita- lobby still stating in a loud voice that the I along about 3 o'clock in the A.M. still rest­ "I see," I say. "You are the speculator neously with Big Boy's mouth opening a jacking of Big Boy is a scandalous matter ing my legs when who comes in but West Side of course?" blackjack drops on his sconce and Big Boy and that somebody will hear from the War Willie and I am most distressed to note that "Well," Willie says, "I am stuck with < sinks back quietly in his seat. Then I recog­ Department and maybe the OPI, too, when he has two black eyes and swollen lips and ticket that I pay six dollars for myself anc nize the guy behind him as Captain Caswell Captain Caswell steps up to him and informs that he seems greatly disheveled in every re­ I happen to need a hundred and I know Bii in civilian clothes. him that Big Boy is jacked because he is spect. Boy Blues will pay anything to get in th( Well, the uproar from the audience contin­ about to start wrecking the joint in discover­ "Why, my good gracious, Willie," I say. theater if he hears Little Boy is in the shov ues but of course it is all over Little Boy ing that his son is a dancer in the show. "Do you get run over by a tank division or although naturally I figure it will be only tc Blues' dancing and no one notices what hap­ "No, no," Colonel Coogan says. "There what?" tear the place apart. But I also know Rosii pens to Big Boy although a couple of coppers is a terrible error somewhere. He knows his "No," Willie says, "Big Boy Blues belts Flynn arranges for police protection so I d( come down the aisle and lift him out of his son is in the show all right because someone me. By the way," he says, "everybody is all not see how he can do any harm even if hi seat and drag him away still unconscious. calls him up this evening and gives him the wrong about him crushing the human skull is there. Furthermore, no one pays any attention to information. Mr. Blues introduces himself with a single blow of his fist. He hits me on "So," Willie says, "I call him up and pro Colonel Coogan who is up on his feet and to me and tells me about it while we are sit­ top of the head twice with his right and only mote him. It is more than human nature cai saying to everyone around him that the ting there side by side waiting for the curtain. raises a contusion and I think he damages stand to let such an opportimity pass. Bu slugging of Big Boy is the worst outrage since He does not seem to know just what to think his duke at thatr However," Willie says, "it besides getting belted I also undergo anothe Pearl Harbor though no one seems to listen about his son being in the show at first but is only fair to say Big Boy comes to the thea­ slight misfortune tonight. I am relieved o to him. he asks me as a special favor not to mention ter to find me fresh from the hospital after my job with the show and ordered to Colone By this time Little Boy Blues is panting it to Mrs. Blues if ever I happen to meet her he is treated for the jacking he receives from Coogan's combat unit in the Pacific." and perspiring more from taking bows than because she thinks her son is with my com­ Captain Caswell and perhaps he does not THE END Collier's for September 29, 194!

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PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED 72 Club, an association of curbstone coaches, Ohio State has lost 26 letter men from tl and made another speech. Widdoes arrived The F-F-F-FTTT! Coach championship 1944 squad. Among fin at the Quarterback Club just as Brown fin­ Continned from page 84 string men it has lost two ends, one tackl ished talking. Brown left again as Widdoes one guard, center and three backfield me started to speak. Brown hastened to a radio Nevertheless, a huge squad turned out fi studio for a network interview with Bill Stern. tinker. He plays chords on the piano and at Otterbein. He was captain of the basket­ summer practice, 142 men at one time. Th Widdoes wasn't interviewed. likes to sing vrith his family. He reads maga­ ball team, starred at halfback in football, group was trimmed to 75 during the summ The two coaches met again a few minutes zine fiction and seldom goes to bed before played baseball and pole-vaulted. and will be down to 55 at the start of fa before 2 P.M. the next day, long enough to midnight. He smiles a great deal, but sel­ He was so late in making his decision to practice. shake hands in the middle of the football dom says anything that could be called witty. be a coach, however, that he had to take three The OSU offense this year will be bui field. Widdoes played no football until he was summer courses at Ohio State University largely around Paul Sarringhaus, accordii Then they threw the football encyclopedia in college. He was halfway through college after he started teaching in the Massillon to Coach Widdoes. Sarringhaus is a fas at each other. before he decided to take up coaching as a Junior High School in order to clear his shifty halfback. He played on the Oh career. Even then, coaching was just a minor physical education credits. State championship team in 1942, was draft£ Scarlet and Cray Scores Early in his college course. Mathematics was his He married Viola Peden who was gradu­ into the Army and recently was released on major. ated two years after him at Otterbein. She medical discharge. An Ohio State backfield man, Dick Flana­ Carroll Widdoes was bom in the Philip­ was an outstanding woman athlete, basket­ OUie Cline, who played the fullback pos gan, snared a Great Lakes pass early in the pine Islands forty-one years ago. His parents. ball being her best game. Mrs. Widdoes is tion regularly as a freshman in 1944, is e: first quarter and ran 62 yards to the Great Dr. and Mrs. Howard W. Widdoes, have recognized as one of the best women golfers pected to be another big ground gainer. Wii Lakes 8-yard line. The bluejackets were still spent a lifetime in the islands as United in central Ohio today. She has won several added experience he may show up as one ( fresh and kept the Ohio State team from Brethren missionaries. golf trophies. the best backfield men in the country. Coat scoring at once. But the long run had given Dr. and Mrs. Widdoes were in the Philip­ Widdoes believes. Ohio State an advantage, and the Scarlet and pines when the Japanese invaded the islands The Boys Are Athletes, Too Bob Dove, who will take the regular spi Gray team scored a short time later. in 1941. They were interned, and for the first at quarterback, proved to be an outstandir The score remained 6-0 in Ohio's favor forty-seven days Dr. Widdoes was on a star­ The Widdoes have three sons, Dick, 16, kicker last year. Sent into games in eme throughout the first half. After the inter­ vation diet of rice, salt and two glasses of Jim, 13, and Tommy, 6. Dick is a quarter­ gencies, he punted Ohio State out of dangi mission and a harangue by Lt. Brown, the water a day. back on the North High School football on several occasions. Navy men put on a drive that netted them Later, he and Mrs. Widdoes were trans­ team m Columbus. He scored a 76 at golf On the line, Widdoes will build aroun 6 points in the third quarter. ferred from Baguio where they were cap­ this year to lead his high school team to four veterans. Bill Hackett, AU-Americ But the Ohio State tfeam seemed to have a tured to Manila, where they were held until the state championship. Jim, second of the guard in 1944, and captain of the team th second wind and a spirit that couldn't be American soldiers liberated them on Febru­ boys, plays basketball in junior high school. year; Russ Thomas, 235-pound tackle, pla; stopped. In the fourth quarter, Ohio State ary 23, 1945. Tommy practices shooting a full-sized bas­ ing his third year on the varsity; Wane piled up three more touchdowns, one of them "We were rescued by a combination of ketball through a hoop on the Widdoes' Amiing, who played both guard and tackl with only seconds to play. And the final last year and has moved on out to end th: score was 26-6 in favor of Ohio. year; and Thornton Dixon, who playei So far as the coaches were concerned, the tackle in 1941 and will be back in the sam pupil had beaten the master. That's the way spot. Dixon's schedule of studies as a Nav the fans looked at it. And there was much dental student at Ohio State had been to talk in Columbus about how Brown and Wid­ heavy to permit him to play again until thi does felt. year. The two men had dinner together again Widdoes said he plans to use about a after the game, with their wives. Other equal number of plays from T-formation an coaches and their wives were at the dinner, single-wing, varying the percentage accorc too, and some Ohio State officials. Little ing to what his scouts discover about th was said about the game. But Lt. Brown weaknesses of opponents. There will be remarked, "Well, I told you we weren't as slight change in tlie shift since Sarringhau: good as everybody thought." key ball toter, will play halfback consistentlj But Cecil Souders, who played end for Horvath, spark plug of the 1944 backflelc Ohio State that afternoon, learned a few played quarterback in the T-formation ani days later one of the things Coach Brown halfback in the single-wing. thought about the Ohio State team. Souders was drafted into the Navy two days Pros and Cons of New Pass Rule after the game. A week later he reported for football practice at Great Lakes. As he Widdoes is concerned about the new rul walked into the locker room, one of the Great which permits forward passing from an Lakes players said to another, "So this is place behind the line of scrimmage. one of those f-f-f-fttt! boys?" "I think it will mean more scoring in a] Souders was puzzled. Eventually he learned games this year," he said. "It's easier ti that Lt. Brown, between halves at the Ohio build an offense with it than a defens State game, had told the Great Lakes squad. against it. It's good for a lot of short gains "What those boys have that you don't have But it won't take the place of the long pas is f-f-f-fttt!" for spectacular gains. And it still will be ; Whatever f-f-f-fttt! is, the Ohio State team whole lot safer to run with the ball than ti kept it throughout the season. After the throw it." Great Lakes game, the Scarlet and Gray The Ohio State fans, of course, are won went on to win over Minnesota 34-14, Indi­ dering whether Widdoes can put f-f-f-fttt ana 21-7, Pittsburgh 54-19, Illinois 26-12, and paratroopers, amphibious tanks and guerrilla garage, with Mother Widdoes coaching him. into another team, or whether the team las Michigan 18-14. troops. It was an exciting and thrilling res­ The new coach at Ohio State University year just naturally was endowed with thi The final game with Michigan, Homecom­ cue with fighting all around us," Dr. Wid­ taught a Sunday-school class and sang in the intangible quality. ing at Ohio State on November 25th, was does wrote to his son. choir of the Fifth Avenue United Brethren Widdoes says the opening game with th< another in which that vital spark, spirit, zip, That letter, received in March, 1945, was Church in Columbus until his new duties as Iowa Seahawks on September 22d will tell ; f-f-f-fttt! or whatever you wish to call it, the first direct word that had reached Coach head coach made it impossible. Mrs. Wid­ lot. It will be Ohio's first opener away fron appeared when most needed. Widdoes from his parents in nearly four does still sings in the choir and teaches a home since 1892. Ohio State was leading 12-7 at the start years. primary class in the Sunday school. "It will be the first college game for man; of the fourth quarter. Midway through the Dr. and Mrs. Widdoes came back to the Coach Widdoes neither smokes nor drinks. of the boys," the coach pointed out. "Mucl quarter, Michigan scored and took the lead, United States in May. They plan to return He swears so seldom that his wife is able to depends on the way they react to whateve 14-12. Instead of discouraging the Ohio Stat­ to the islands after they have built up their remember one specific occasion when he happens in this game." ers, this seemed to inspire them to greater health. slipped. It was during a summer when he Coach Widdoes' own explanation for th' effort. They began a drive which took them The coach had two brothers and three sis­ was supervising a playground. There was fine spirit of the 1944 team is that it grev 53 yards to the goal and victory. That drive ters. Carroll's parents brought him to the some sort of continued annoyance—she's steadily on the practice field. He doesn't be was made with steady gains of three, four States for the first time when he was six forgotten what it was—and the coach finally lieve in spirit injected by Saturday afternooi and five yards, with an occasional seven. years old. When he was thirteen, they used a swear word. He said "damn" once harangues. "If players have the right atti Four first downs were counted during the brought him again and left him with one of during the football season last fall. One Co­ tude and play hard in practice, tliey wii winning push. his sisters and his brothers at the Otterbein lumbus newspaper considered it so signifi­ have the right attitude and play hard in thei Home, a school for children of missionaries, cant they put it in a headline. games," he said. "It's best to build spirit or An Everyday American Type at Lebanon, Ohio. Coach Widdoes is reasonably conservative Mondays and Tuesdays. It holds better thai Carroll played basketball and baseball and in his comments on 1945 prospects. The the frenzy of the last minute." Immediately the fans wanted to know more pole-vaulted at Lebanon High School, which schedule calls for ten games, one more than An idea of the spirit of the 1945 Ohio Stat about this new coach who had come seem­ didn't have a football team. last year, and for the first time in football squad was gained by those who saw the fina ingly from nowhere, a coach who could in­ After graduating from high school, he went history Ohio State will meet seven other game at the end of summer practice. Th ject winning spirit as well as organize winning to Otterbein College, a United Brethren Western Conference teams in one season. squad was divided into two teams, the Red plays. school of some 300 students at Westerville, They are Iowa, Wisconsin, Purdue, Minne­ and the Whites, varsity men being on th Coach Widdoes is of average size, five feet, Ohio, about twelve miles from Columbus. sota, Northwestern, Illinois and Michigan. Whites. And the Reds played so hard, the; seven inches, and 160 pounds, which makes Years ago, when Ohio State University Also on the schedule are the Iowa Seahawks, pushed through a 14-12 victory over the firs him look small compared to most of the Ohio was much smaller, it used to meet Otterbein Missouri and Pittsburgh. stringers. The Reds had f-f-f-fttt! State players. His face is round, unlined, on the gridiron. In fact, Otterbein beat Ohio "We'll take them one at a time and I think "It's always possible," Coach Widdoes saii pleasant. What's left of his hair is blond. State twice, in 1893 and 1895. But football we'll come out pretty good," Widdoes said. philosophically, "that we may run into an He's the kind of man who paints his own teams of the two schools haven't met since "It looks like Michigan is the big one to aim other university team with more f-f-f-ftti home during summer vacation and makes 1912. at. Minnesota and Illinois look threatening, than we have." routine repairs around the house but doesn't Carroll Widdoes was a four-sports athlete too." THE END Gomel's ioi September S9, 194!

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Consider the trials of the cast of The Year­ ling, who went all out for authenticity in a Florida jungle. They got what they wanted

T HAD been 104' in the shade that day down in the patch of Florida jungle where MGM was filming The I Yearling. The red bugs and the wood ticks had done what they could to add to the boiling discomfort of the hun­ dred or so people working there. Now it was 102° in the shade, and for perhaps the twelfth time everything was set to shoot the bear-hunt sequence. Everything, that is, except the sun. The sun was behind a cloud. Director Clarence Brown frowned up at the sky. There was nothing to do but wait, and waiting is what had been getting on the company's nerves all day. Len Smith, director of photography, looked over the scene the camera would shoot if they ever got enough light. He examined a brownish-looking clump of palmetto, and called to Bill the painter. "Bill," he said, "I need some of this brown stuff painted green." Bill nodded and walked off down the road, little puffs of dust rising every time he put his foot down. He disap­ peared briefly between two trucks and came back shrugging and holding out his hands, palms up. "The truck with my paint on it has gone back to town," he said. Len, a quiet-spoken man, looked oS into the forest. "Then you're not a painter," he said. "I am a painter," said Bill. "If you're a painter, paint that stuff green." "I can't paint it green. I haven't got any paint." "Then you're not a painter." Len still sppke quietly, still gazed off into the forest. "I am a painter." "Where's your paint?" "It's not here." Bill's voice was getting a little strained. "Without paint, you're no painter." "I am a painter." This went on until Bill, suddenly red in the face, an­ nounced; "The paint department has ceased to function as of now," and stalked off. Bill was mollified eventually, and they sent a car to town, the-town of Silver Springs, to get his paint—a matter of thirty miles of highway and ten miles of rough dirt road. Hollywooders Show Symptoms of Distress The crew sat around on trucks and little camp chairs. Not on logs. Logs are where the red bugs hang out. You could tell the local men from the Hollywood men, because the Hollywood men wore sun helmets and high boots. You could tell the Hollywood folks, too, by their slightly peaked look. Just about every one of them had suffered from dysen­ tery recently—change of water, maybe. Lee Stanfield, make­ up man, scratched his back. He had spent the better part of the last two days soaking in a tub of soda water to overcome an agonizing head-to-foot itch which, mysteriously, had no visible symptoms. The talk was edgy. One fellow dabbed lotion onto red- bug welts on his chest. "That won't help," somebody said. Another man dipped a piece of cheesecloth in cold water and wrapped it around his neck. "That'll make you hotter," he was told. Now and then someone would rise slowly and slowly walk over to get a drink from the water cooler perched at the end of a truck. A man hoisted another tank of water into place. This made 90 gallons drunk that day, he said. That morning one of the local men had caught a rattle­ snake. He had picked it up by grasping it with his two hands carefully placed behind the snake's head, the way you do if you don't want to get snake-bit, and he'd stuck it in a sack ready to take back to town and sell to the snake farm there for three doUars. (Continued on page 11)

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